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There is a term that little fellows on losing teams may possibly in the future apply to the athletes of the Massee Country School (Shippan Point, Conn.). One of the latter may knock out run after run on a spring afternoon or, when November has turned the leaves wan, may carry a begrimed ball for endless gains; even so, he shall not come to honor. For the little fellows and their supporters will murmur among themselves. "That guy, how does he get in?" they will demand of the spring sky, of the autumn clouds. The Massee School's headmaster...
...real name is Giuseppe Carriorra. He was born in Sicily. Last week, he was received by Pope Pius XI-the first time such an honor has ever been accorded a pugilist. Said Mr. Dundee (later) to reporters: "That ought to bring luck. I hope I'll knock out the next man I fight...
padded with a pair of proven actresses (Gail Kane and Elisabeth Risdon), though written by a graduate of Harvard's famed 47 Workshop (Thomas Robinson), one week sufficed to knock this play quite out of competition. It was an aimless story of a writer, his wife, another woman...
...difference between mercury and gold, automicly speaking, is that an atom of gold consists of a nucleus and 79 electrons grouped around it, whereas an atom of mercury consists of a nucleus surrounded by 80 electrons. Take an atom of mercury; if you could, knock off the 80th electron and you would have an atom of gold...
Woodrow Wilson was led to remark as early as 1907: "Would that we could do something, at once dignified and effective, to knock Mr. Bryan once for all into a cocked hat!" And the late learned and Democratic Walter Hines Page summed up his opinion of Mr. Bryan for Colonel House with the remark : "Crank once, crank always...